ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2666, 23 November 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND DROWNED

TPeii Prkßß Association.! AUCKLAND, Nov. 22. A body, supposed to be that of a man named Bruce McKinney, has been found in the Mahurangi river. He is believed to have been accidentally drowned. ; ■ . A GUN ACCIDENT. •5, -t - ■; FEILDING, Nov. 22. William Harford, a young married man, was the victim of a gun accidentyesterday. He was out shooting rabbits with three others. Whilst getting through a barbed wire fence another man’s guii was accidentally discharged, the shot entering Harford’s back near the shoulder. A bag Harford was carrying fortunately received half the charge. The victim, was operated on, and is recovering. A PECULIAR FATALITY. TAURANGA, Nov. 22. William John Douglas, aged 30, died in the Waihi Hospital as the result of an operation to recover an iron staple accidentally swallowed last week while he was mending a fence. He leaves a widow and family of five. A CHILD DROWNED. . DUNEDIN, Nov. 22. Daniel Leonard, Mathias, aged two,, was accidentally .drowned in a well near his parents’ house, Alexandra South, on Saturday. A SUICIDE. The body of Robert Marshall, missing from Roxburgh for some days,.has been found in an old coal mine at Coal Creek. Decomposition had set in. A bit of string connected his toe with the trigger of a .pea* rifle, and the bullet had entered his forehead.